Improved carpet-lining



M. MAYALL. CARPET LINING.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MILES MAYALL, OF ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOILBY MESNE ASSIGNMENT,TO GEORGE W. MAYALL.

-IMPROVED CARPET-LINING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 82,236, dated September15, 1868; antedated Jun 27, 1868.

To all whom it may concern.- terposed between the surfaces, and at theBe it known that I, MILES MAYALL, of same time, by permitting ythe dustpassing Roxbury, in the county of Suffolk and State through the carpettok pass below the surface, vof Massachusetts, have invented a new andrelieving the carpet from the wear by friction useful Improvement inUnder Lining for Caragainst the gritty particles. pets; and I do herebydeclare that the follow- I am aware that linings have been coning is afull, clear, and exact description of structed by interposing a fibrousmaterial bethe same, reference being had to the annexed tween papersurfaces, and I do not claim this drawings, making part of thisspecification, mode of construction independently; nor do in which- Iclaim, broadly, perforating an under lining,

Figure l is a top view, and Fig. 2 a transfor I am aware that this hasbeen done withM verse section. paper and felt linings; b'ut in no casehas an The same letters in all the figures indicate elastic lining ofpaper and a fibrous material the same parts. men employedv`ithmperforations passing In constructing my improved under liningthrough the entire material. The parties have for carpets, I use onesurface of paper and anrelied on the dust passing through the fibrous 1other of a thin gauze-like woven fabric, and material without requiringperforations, which fill between them with cotton,wool, hair, moss, itis found it will not do when the fibrous ma- \or other suitable fibrousmaterial, turning one terialhas become packed by use; but

of the surfaces over the edges, and fastening -What I do claim as myinvention, and deit with mucilage to form a binding. sire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

The lining, when completed, I prefer to have As' an article ofmanufacture, an under linabout one-half of an inch in thickness, inoring for a carpet constructed from an 'elastic der to give therequisite softness to the carfibrous material, placed between thesurfaces, pet. v one of paper and the other of a thin open- The use of awooden fabric in combination woven fabric, and having perforationsthrough with the paper gives greater strength and the whole,substantially as described. durability tothe lining, and it avoids' thenoise In testimony that I claim the foregoing I or rattling of thepaper. When the lining has have hereunto set my hand this 31st day ofbeen thus prepared, I perforate it through and May, 1867.

through with holes of 'about a quarter of an MILES MAYALL. i-uch indiameter, and about an inch apart, Witnesses:

which answer the double purpose of giving JOHN SKILTON,

greater elasticity to the fibrous material in- HENRY DAWES.

